[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, GLOBAL: "Yokosuka [Japan] mayor calls for investigation into water contamination at U.S. base"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Yokosuka mayor calls for investigation into water contamination at U.S. base

Japan News/Yomiuri Shimbun 
October 7, 2022

YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa — Yokosuka Mayor Katsuaki Kamiji has asked the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Japan to conduct an immediate investigation following the detection of a harmful substance at a level exceeding the limit imposed by the Japanese government in wastewater from a treatment plant at the U.S. Navy’s Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), a toxic substance that is harmful to humans, was detected at the wastewater plant.

Less than 50 nanograms of PFOS per liter of wastewater is permitted under Japanese standards. Levels exceeding 100 times that amount were detected at the base’s wastewater treatment plant, according to a recent analysis conducted by the U.S. side.

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For the entire article, see
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20221007-63096/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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